One of the most entertaining movies of 2013

Rating: 8/10 (2 February 2019)

The Pacific Rim trailer caught my attention. You expect a film about big robots (like in Transformers) versus Godzilla monsters. When I saw that the film was 132 minutes long, I wondered if we would just analyze horses like this, sort of, one more time, get to see them in the film. Fortunately, this is not the case.
The film starts with a prologue, It has been said that a portal in the Pacific takes place samples (called Kaiju) and then attack the earth. The people have to make their own monsters, giant robots called Jeagers to fight the Kaiju. The Jeagers need two pilots. The thoughts, memories and emotions of the two pilots are connected to each other in order to control the Jeager.
The story goes somewhere in the middle of what it is now. The first fight takes place at night, it is difficult to see what is happening. The Kaiju was safe to see. You can not clearly see from the Kaiju a real picture that it has been edited with the computer. Fortunately, all other Kaiju feathers are good to see. After the first fight, the movie really starts.
Idris Elba's character asks the main character, an old Jeager pilot to come back to the Jeager team. Back at the Jeager team, the protagonist meets the character Mako. The two goes finally together in a Jeager against the Kaiju fighting to protect the world. We see a few fights between the Kaiju and Jeagers. You learn more about the other characters and their view of the world. The goal of the Jeagers is to stop the Kaiju, close the portal in the Pacific Ocean and thus prevent the earth from being lost.
The fighting between the Kaiju and Jeagers looks great. You really get the feeling that two huge things are being destroyed and everything around them.
The Kaiju were not all the same what the trailer is so late. Each Kaiju looked different and had given his own special gifts. The characters are interesting to see because they are in each other's brains during the fighting and get a special bond. What is special is that it is not the most important thing to look at. The character Mako steals the show, especially with the emotional scene about her past. Idris Elba is also doing great as the leader of Jeager's team.
Pacific Rim is a great film with a good story. Definitely worth seeing. So far it is not the best film I saw in 2013.